spire

IPA: spˈaɪr

(now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
A sharp or tapering point.
(architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A spiral.
(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
(transitive) To furnish with a spire.
(intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.

Examples of "spire" in Sentences

The spire of the shell is conic.
The spire was the tallest in Nottingham.
The top floor of the tower is to the top of the spire.
You can read more about why the spire is twisted here.
Many churches have a weathercock on the tower or spire.
It will drive a 55 grain spire point at 3900 fps with H414.
Problems afflicted the spire and tower throughout the 20th century.
The inner arches of the tower carried a spire of graceful proportions.
The architecture is of the Gothic style and the spire reaches 35 metres.
The chancel is slightly lower than the nave and the tower has a broach spire.
The clock tower of the Town Hall is the lesser spire on the left of the photo.
The vane was added to the church in 1746 when the spire was built on the tower.
The spire is the knee joint from the leg of the lubber grasshopper mentioned above.
I also get great accuracy out of Hornady 117 grain spire points over 48. 5g of IMR4350.
‘drop’; ‘wreathe’ and ‘writhe’; ‘spear’ and ‘spire’ (“the least _spire_ of grass”, South); ‘trist’ and ‘trust’; ‘band’, ‘bend’ and ‘bond’;
The shell is cylindrical, dense and heavy; the spire is short, with channelled sutures, and the aperture long and narrow; the anterior part is notched; the columella is callous and striated obliquely.